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George Hearst was born on September 3, 1820, in Sullivan, Missouri, United States. His father, William G. Hearst, had married Elizabeth Collins of Georgia and had gone to Missouri from South Carolina in 1808.
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George Hearst was born on September 3, 1820, in Sullivan, Missouri, United States. His father, William G. Hearst, had married Elizabeth Collins of Georgia and had gone to Missouri from South Carolina in 1808.
George Hearst attended the public schools and the Franklin County Mining School.
Upon the death of his father in 1846, George Hearst inherited the latter’s farm property. Leaving Missouri, however, four years later, he crossed the plains on foot beside an ox-wagon, and, arriving in California, turned first to quartz-mining, and later to placer mining. His success was not marked until 1859, when, speculating on the rich finds in western Nevada, he laid the foundations of a great fortune. Gradually his many interests spread to other states, as well as into Mexico, where the principal mine was San Luis at San Dimas, in the state of Durango. His chief business associates were James Ben Ali Haggin, Lloyd Tevis, and in later years, Marcus Daly. In 1866 and again in 1874 his financial condition became precarious, but in each case he recovered.
Hearst came to know from personal observation most of the country west of the great plains. This firsthand knowledge, of which he was proud, gave him influence with his allies in business and later with his colleagues in the Senate. It was generally agreed that he was a born prospector, and that he came to be, for practical mining purposes, one of the best geologists that the country had produced. As a multimillionaire Hearst lived on a lavish scale and contributed to manifold charities, personifying to many in the West the open-handed generosity of the early days.
Except for a brief service in the California Assembly in 1865-1866, Hearst did not have an active part in politics until 1882, when he appeared as a candidate for governor before the Democratic state convention. Two years before this he had acquired the San Francisco Daily Examiner (later the Examiner). In his candidacy he had the backing of the San Francisco delegates and he was said by his managers to be opposed to railway domination of politics. Hearst entered into political alliance with Christopher Buckley, Democratic boss of San Francisco, contributed heavily to campaign funds in 1884, and after receiving the nomination of the Democratic caucus for the Senate was defeated by Leland Stanford in January 1885. On March 23, 1886, upon the death of John Franklin Miller, Governor Stoneman appointed Hearst to the United States Senate. Two years later he was elected for the full term. In the Senate, as in business life, his interest was in matters touching upon mining, railways, agriculture, and land grants. Within a week of the close of the Fifty-first Congress, he died in Washington.
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George Hearst was a member of the Democratic party.
George Hearst spoke seldom and claimed on one occasion to be “the silent man of the Senate. ” He impressed his colleagues as an unusual man whose life had been a romance in westward expansion and who brought to the work of the Senate the fruits of a rich experience. His abounding humor and emphatic honesty were long remembered. Tall, gainly, with large nose and deep-set eyes, he had the long bushy beard which in earlier years marked the Western miner, and miner he remained to the last.
George Hearst married Phoebe Apperson on June 15, 1862, upon a return to Missouri.